T I M E L I N E


  1977

Apple home computer introduced

  1980-85

Scitex, Hell, and Crosfield introduce computer imaging systems

  1984

Canon demonstrates first electronic still camera

Japanese newspapers cover the opening of the Olympics in Los Angeles
with Canon RC-701 Still Video Cameras and analog transmitter

  1985

Pixar introduces digital imaging processor

  1986

World conference establishes standards for sound, video, and digital re-
cordings agreed to by manufacturers of all electronic still photography
(ESP) and still video (SV) equipment

Eastman Kodak announces the 1.4 megapixel CCD for digital cameras

  1987

Canon produces RC-760 Still Video Camera with a 600,000 pixel CCD

USA Today begins to cover special events with the Canon RC-760 camera

Eastman Kodak enters the electronic still-video market with seven products
for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still
video images

  1988

Sony and Fuji announce new digital cameras

Eastman Kodak announces a 4 megapixel CCD

PhotoMac is the first image manipulation program available
for the Macintosh computer

  1989

Sony announces MCV-5000 twin ship camera with two separate CCD
elements for luminance and chrominance

Letraset releases Color Studio 1.0 (TM), the first professional image
manipulation program for Macintosh computers

  1990

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (TM) is the second professional image manipulation
program available for Macintosh computers

Eastman Kodak prototypes an electronic camera back designed for the
needs of photojournalists

Dycam releases an electronic camera for business imaging applications

Eastman Kodak announced the development of its Photo CD system and a
proposed worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment
of computers and computer peripherals

  1991

Sony releases the SEPS-1000 Digital Studio Camera
for modest quality advertising

Rollei and Arca Swiss announce their digital studio cameras

Kodak Professional Digital Camera System (DCS) is introduced, enabling
photojournalists to take electronic pictures with a Nikon F-3 camera
equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor

  1992

Kodak Digital Camera releases the DCS 200 digital camera

Leaf Systems announces the Leaf camera back for studio cameras,
such as Hasselblad or Sinar

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) releases Mosaic,
the first browser enabling users to view photographs over the Internet
  
  1993

Adobe Photoshop is available for MS-DOS/Windows platforms

Nikon, Canon, Leaf Systems, and others announce new digital cameras
for photojournalists and studio photographers respectively

LivePicture image manipulation software is announced by HSC, Inc.

  1994

Associated Press announces the AP/Kodak NC2000 digital camera
for photojournalists

Apple Computer, Sony, and Kodak announce new digital cameras

Apple Computer introduces RISC technology to the desktop computer
market with the new PowerPC line

  1995

Kodak introduces its Home Page on the World Wide Web of the Internet

 1996

Nikon F5 camera is introduced

Kodak demonstrates their new FLASHPIX technology at the COMDEX trade
show. Developed collaboratively by Kodak, Hewlett-Packard Company, Live
Picture Inc, and Microsoft Corp, it incorporates many features from existing
image formats and adds new capabilities.
  
  1997

Nikon introduces the E2Ns, a professional-level digital SLR camera